Dear Bay Weekly:

Steve Carr’s article is good as always!

Everyone is running around these days seeking Happiness indexes. We should have one for the Bay, and the index/measurement should be on people living today and how they can maintain or improve their level. Total Maximum Daily Loads are nice and necessary, but they are just another diversion that separates people from land and water and have no personal meaning for individuals.

Dear Bay Weekly:

EPA is requiring Maryland to create a Watershed Implementation Plan as a road map for cleaning up our waters.

Maryland’s first draft was a good start. But there are key elements missing — namely how the state is going to achieve full implementation of the programs detailed in the plan.

Dear Bay Weekly:

At last, my laziness has been given the stamp of approval, at least by the scientists trying to save our precious Chesapeake Bay.

Dear Bay Weekly:

Every year on November 11, a grateful nation honors and recognizes more than 23.4 million living veterans.

While our foremost thoughts are with those in distant war zones, on Veterans’ Day Americans pay their respects to all who answered the nation’s call. Participation in Veterans’ Day can be as simple as placing the American flag on your porch or reminding youngsters about friends and relatives who served in the military.